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  2. List of photographers of the civil rights movement - Wikipedia

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    Warren K. Leffler's photograph of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom at the National Mall. Beginning with the murder of Emmett Till in 1955, photography and photographers played an important role in advancing the civil rights movement by documenting the public and private acts of racial discrimination against African Americans and the nonviolent response of the movement.

  3. Racism in the United States - Wikipedia

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    [72] Historically, there was extensive and long-lasting racial discrimination against African Americans in the housing and mortgage markets in the United States, [73] [74] as well as discrimination against Black farmers whose numbers massively declined in post-WWII America due to anti-Black local and federal policies. [75]

  4. Category : Race-related controversies in the United States

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    Racial bias in criminal news in the United States; Racial discrimination in jury selection; Racial profiling; Racial profiling in the United States; Racial segregation in the United States; Lynching of Bernice Raspberry; Reconstruction era; Removal of Confederate monuments and memorials; Reparations for slavery in the United States; Rhinelander ...

  5. American Airlines settles discrimination lawsuit filed by ...

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    American Airlines has settled a racial discrimination lawsuit filed by three Black men who alleged they were thrown off a plane in January for a false complaint about body odor.

  6. In California's largest race bias cases, Latino workers are ...

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    In the last decade, the two largest race discrimination cases brought by the federal government in the Golden State alleged widespread abuse of hundreds of Black employees at Inland Empire warehouses.

  7. Taunted for being Black, a student fought back in a 30 ... - AOL

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    Schools, she said, also need to educate children about the history and impact of racial discrimination in America and help them understand why certain words have the power to destroy — or, in ...

  8. Racism against African Americans - Wikipedia

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    Many Americans cite the 2008 United States presidential election as a step forward in race relations: White Americans played a role in the election of Barack Obama, the country's first Black president. [101] In fact, Obama received a greater percentage of the White vote (43%), [102] than did the previous Democratic candidate, John Kerry (41% ...

  9. Discrimination in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Major figures such as Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Rosa Parks [14] were involved in the fight against the race-based discrimination of the Civil Rights Movement. . Rosa Parks's refusal to give up her bus seat in 1955 sparked the Montgomery bus boycott—a large movement in Montgomery, Alabama, that was an integral period at the beginning of the Civil Rights Moveme